User and Task analysis for SETENTS
User Analysis
Our intended user base is people who wish to use their computers to take notes on presentations, or on readings. This mainly consists of college students taking notes in lecture.
- age, gender culture: The age of our main target users, college students, ranges from 18 to 28. Users might be of any gender, and are from a culture that is proficient in English.
- education: Users are mostly college educated.
- Physical limitations: Users do not have any physical limitations which would prevent them from taking notes on paper unassisted.
- Computer experience: Users are computer literate, and prefer computer-based solutions to their problems.
- Motivation: Users want to take notes using a computer. Users want to be able to easily search their notes, and share them with others. One student who currently takes notes on paper frequently shares notes with students who did not attend lecture, but must scan the notes to make a copy; she would like to be able to share notes more easily. Users would like the ability to revisit parts of the presentation that they missed, although for the most part they do not want recordings of the entire presentation, since reviewing them would take too much time. Users would like to be able to quickly identify important sections of their notes when they are reviewing them: equations which are necessary to complete a pset, for instance.
- Domain experience
- Application experience
- work environment and other social context
- relationsships and communication patterns with other people
Task Analysis
why is the task being done
what does the user need to know of have before doing the task
where is the task performed
what is the environment like
how often is the task performed
what are tis time or resource constraints
how is the task learned
what can go wrong
who else is involved in the task